F*ck, man! If I had known about this, I would have grabbed as many tickets as possible to as many different locations, whether I wanted to ever go there or not. I would be having an awesome time right now. Sigh.

Of all the destinations on the list, the only one that has appealed to me is of course Rio. All the insanely hot women, wearing nothing makes any red blooded American want to go. But, with that said, I will never go for the reasons stated in the video.

So we landed a few hours ago. Went to a recommended local grill on the bay, and we are stuffed with great seafood. Got up at 3:30 this morning. I'm tired, in a good way. It beautiful. My first notice is that it's very mountainous and tropical. Tiny curvy roads with lots of shops. Lots of people too. Also, noticed lots of old people. I saw one family with kids. I just don't think they come here.

Not sure about going to the **** beaches, with all this old wrinkled skin

So today we went on a nice leisurely boat ride with drinks, lunch and snorkeling. Could not believe the boat didn't have fins. Man that's hard to swim around without.

It rained on the motorboat out to the boat. Then cloudy all day (which was perfect), and it rained a little coming in. Right now it's raining like a mofo. That's ok, they are short. Met some fun people. Going out to fresh lobster place tonight, then some music back at our place.

I simply cannot believe the traffic here. Incredibly bad. The driving like I've never seen before. Mayhem.

Went to Orient Beach yesterday. Perfect day. Lots of sun. The waves were awesome. We accidentally found this outdoor restaurant. It was the last resteraunt on the beach. We were kinda secluded. Though we had the occasional **** walker go by. Orient beach is in two halves. **** and full nudity.

Today is a 'wash'... Due to two major rain storms. We knew the day was going to be cloudy, so we did the wife thing and went shopping and searched for two restaurants she wanted to locate. It's very confusing to get around here. Very little in signage. No road signs whatsoever. We finally found the restaurants... We finally decided they weren't all that just because of the long drive. One italian and one French. Both get good word, to far. We wound up having lunch in a very cool tucked away French restaurant hanging directly over the ocean with Anguilla taking up the horizon.

It rained a little.

Went back towards home base. I stopped in a Scuba Shop the 1st mate from yesterday recommended. I was intending to only purchase a snorkel mask. I wound up buying mask, fins & snorkel tube for cheap. (I priced some stuff back at home. One item there was my entire cost here). I'm happy. Been wanting to do this for years.

Now, we are home and it's raining.... Hard. We are just chilling for a bit until the rain passes through.

Yesterday may have been the pinnacle day. We took an all day trip on a large catamaran. Tad crowded (67) for my tastes. The weather was perfect. The waters... Amazing. We first took a 1-1/2 hour trip along the coast of St. Martin past Anguilla to Prickly Pear. A beach on a remote island, which I thought was just perfect. The water was touquise, perfect temp, and the fish.. So colorful. Not the best I've seen. I've seen better fish in Belize, st Lucia and Antuiga.

We headed back and stopped at a private little area off the coast of Anguilla. The water currents were more intense than they look, I just heald on to the boat and floated.

...but this is one memory I don't want. They just put the Dutch side of the island on curfew, from noon to 6.

It has rained so much since yesterday, landslides, debris on the road and flooding have made this a nightmare. I'm OK with lounging around here. It sucks, but my wife is just lost. Let's go here... We can't... Traffic. Let's do this.... We can't... Curfew. Let's go to the pool. Ok, it's raining a little. All the shops are closed here.. For some unknown reason. She doesn't want to walk downtown to the boardwalk, for some security?